MISSION STATEMENT

Molly's Adopt a Sailor Project, a
broad based, collaborative and community initiative to support deployed
United States Military Personnel by way of cards, letters, and care
packages filled with love, support, and necessities from home.

Our Beginning

Molly's Adopt A Sailors humble beginnings started on the website, www.navyformoms.com.
The group was created simply to adopt a group of deployed Military
Personnel, because we weren't able to send care packages to our sailors
that had left for boot camp. As we became more indoctrinated into all
things Military, we learned, not all of our Troops were receiving the
love and support from home that they so richly deserved. This group
decided to make it their mission to change that. As we went further
down the path, we discussed the idea of an official 501C3. Discuss.
Pray. Act. We acted on the idea and in a record 11 days, Molly's Adopt A
Sailor became a certified 501C3.

Molly's Story

In March of 2008 when Molly's Son graduated from Navy Boot Camp in Great
Lakes, IL, he told her that there were guys at Boot Camp that never
received any mail, the entire time they were there. She went back to
her hometown and ironically, a co-worker had a nephew leaving for Navy
Boot Camp and she asked if it was o.k. to write to him. She asked that
recruit to pass on letters to recruits not getting any mail. The next
thing she knew she had three recruits writing to her. She continued to
write and she asked those recruits to pass her information on to other
recruits.

She requested help from some of her Navy Mom friends to help with
writing letters of encouragement and support. As they were writing to
the recruits, they started to think about those sailors that were
deployed far from home. The group decided, they could adopt deployed
sailors and send them cards and letters of encouragement. June 2008,
the very first project, instead of sending birthday cards to Molly we
adopted our first group of five EOD soldiers. No better birthday
present than to help our troops.

Time has gone by and more Moms joined and we've grown to hundreds of
Navy Moms and loved ones and fans on face book representing every state
in our wonderful union. We started our website, a twitter account and
facebook. We have been able to greet some of our adoptees upon their
return. We grow daily.

We have received our 501C3 status, so we are a tax deductible
organization and become a Oregon State Combined Financial Charity
(#454411)

Stay tuned, we are not done yet! Molly's Adopt A Sailor will be here as long as there are troops to support!